THE NEW YORKER Lion sits around waiting for her to bring home the bacon); and patience (the vultures bide their time). Cunning, of course, is ever-present, especially in the case of the leopard, who climbs a tree and jumps down upon some unsuspect- ing wildebeests. The cheetahs are on hand, too, running at eighty miles an hour for their lunch. Mr. Disney spares us none of the details of lunch. We see various types of carcasses being ripped to bits and stripped to the bone, an d from time to tIme the film takes on some of the more grisly aspects of an abattoir. All this, I suppose, is nature in the raw, and one should be brave, and reahze that we are all animals, and part of the animal kingdom, but I pre- f " M " er arty. " I T's ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER," bJlled as a "fresh, brIght comedy," is a hodgepodge of music, dancing, sat- ire ( the victim is television, which emerges with a few Band-Aids on its forehead), and what I assume are the deeper canyons of thought out in the celluloid paradise. To take up the deep thought first, three veterans of the Sec- ond W orld War return to the States and head for a Third Avenue bar called Tim's. (There is a man over on Third Avenue called Tim who runs a bar, and he has every right to sue.) They vow that they will meet at the same place ten years later, to the day . Ten years later, to the day, they meet, and in various ways they have been defeated by the tWIsts and turns of life. Like children, they have lost their way, and each one of them is, in a sense, looking for himself rather than for the other two. i\ theme of this sort now passes for fresh, bright comedy. As for the n1usic, it is routIne, eÀcept for the torrid and stirring singing of Dolure Gray. The dancing is rathel more than routine, since Gene Kelly, Michael Kidd, Cyd Charisse, and Dan Dailey dance and dance, and they know how to dance. I think we had better pass up the satire. Betty Com den and .L-'\.dolph Green con- cocted the story, but, like that rhino, they are deeply embedded in the mud- this time of Hollywood-for true satire is something they presun1ably dare not attempt, lest they lose their jobs. Satire and Hollywood are natural enelnies. -PHILIP HAMBtTRGER . LETTERS WE NEVER FINISHED READING THE jU'IIOR HERITAGE CLUB N ow look here, Pop-or lVlom-or l\/lom-&-Pop-look here: You. . . Open a John David charge account. THE MAN WITH TH E 113 He's a man of the world who's fashion sense makes him a standout. He's wearing a new-Jor-Fall Hickey-Freeman suit Jrom John David with all the suaveness, elegant sophistication, tr mmer-jor- sl mmer l nes and dark "Burnt Match T one" which characterizes this new look for '55. "CONTINENTAL "" .. w ,*' /f' , ": I,' " " : .... 'i" .('-c-:-" { j. " ":-:: :......,.: j, f. ", '" ....c": ,. , " * ^'..t : :J ; . \ /': tW <' ttt\\\ " .\1" , .: ú*1 , ,," . - - '\ < ': ..", . ":'::".;:' ":',':' :.... '<it. .".,.,... ,^, ',-'" "= -- > ' :....... ' .' : *t:,;, ,\-c:.:t,," h "'"" : ,.... .t" , ,.æL.., :::-= '.<<. 'i ' _ ..:.v. .". : , <,W-::, . , ....."... ?<- ",*=;,*-,' -..: ((,t'.:'. p "', I:" ffÿ?A ... .:-: AIR"! .. ".:.:.:.:." :: ::. . H ckey-Freeman Fall SU1,tS, from $125 H lckey-Freeman Topcoats from $125 ..... ,: 4 "', b- ,', " /##/ ]7'. )t' -'9< =..... oQ <' . : , ' ". r }"<' . .-AS;. . :-:.< .: ft.. ',: ,4..'1 /' ii:.., " ..... ...: ,. ',,-c:. ---- é(;M:: .,' "' '''':'' ..:. <" . :-" . ;:-:". . ... 4:. y .. > ....-:.. ......::+:f ....:"n JOHN S lP-Ø1Ule, v I eæ úJ!{)/}tk DAVID